Archives for February 2014

This follows on from ‘Part 1’ and won’t make sense if you have not read that first! Hi H, I understand your position and it is unfortunate, because without the use of logos and branding I am not going to be able to create what I need to create (namely [insert ideas that you will see […]

Quite honestly, apart from old school mechanical cameras with whirring gears and the general mechanical loveliness that came with them, I find cameras, well, a bit dry. I’m much more interested in pictures, but will admit that some cameras really do get under my skin and excite me. I have a fairly large amount of […]

A Charitable Encounter…. of the Third Kind A few weeks ago, I wrote to a charity to ask if they would be happy for me to use their logo on my blog in order to help raise funds for them. I wanted to use a clear, visually effective button that would allow me to integrate […]

At the very beginning of shooting Russians and Royals, the area surrounding the royal palace was largely deserted (aside from one mentally troubled gentleman living in a tent within the perimeter). Young boys would play football and cricket on what used to be parade grounds and gardens, drawn from predominantly Hazara and Pashtun communities half […]

Some of you may have noticed one glaring omission thus far and, yes; it is filters! With no Bayer array, the manipulation of tones by mixing colour in post is not possible, so you have to do this at the capture stage. There has been some talk of focus shift causing problems, but I have […]

The above image was shot at 320, but to ensure that I preserved the many hot highlights (including light struck areas on walls and passing trains), I needed to underexpose. I then lifted the exposure and held the highlights before adjusting global contrast and moving on from there. Base ISO on the Monochrom is 320, […]

I’ve inserted the image above, precisely because its the sort of image you don’t think Monochrom users are going to shoot with it. It was shot on an ultralight tripod and the complete rig was featherweight, making wandering around the city a pleasure. I could not have made this image on the M9 and it […]

I’m in Afghanistan and don’t have photos of the camera to hand, but I’m sure you know what it looks like anyway…. I’ll post some when I’m back in the UK and later on in the review I will post quite a few photos taken with the camera, which are much more important! Introduction I’m […]

Domke F-Series Bags Note: all photos are of the . The Domke F-series bags are classic ‘shoulder’ camera bags and I tend to use them when I need to carry a fair amount of kit and where the pace is going to be reasonably sedate. I may also expect to be putting the bag down […]

Talented photographer, yes….good camera and excellent lenses, yes… great photos? Maybe not. This is a difficult one to get your head round at times, but I have never been out in the field and failed to be reminded of the ‘importance of the flow’, as I like to call it. This phrase, for me, describes the […]

A friend recently asked if I could take some photographs of a small Kabul orphanage, which looks after disabled children. They needed a few recent images. I was very happy to do so and seeing as I have only the the A7 and A7R here in Afghanistan at the moment (oh, and the Panasonic GM-1), […]

‘McCullin has wasted fifty years of his life taking photographs that changed nothing.’ If you or I had said this, it would be laughed at. If a newspaper printed it, they would be lambasted for their lack of respect for arguably the greatest name in conflict photography. The problem is that Don McCullin said words […]

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Award-winning photographer, ex-soldier and father of two, Thomas Stanworth has spent over a decade working and photographing in trouble spots from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan. His work has been exhibited in the US, UK, Europe and Asia. Read More…

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